September 2009 Visit Our Website! www.ghmchs.org Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society Annual Meeting RESIDENT’S PLETTER Dear Society Members, R EMNISCENCES Greetings to all! I hope you are enjoying this fabulous weather.The OF trees will soon turn their fall colors and the sound of Grandview Heights High School band will resound in the neighborhood THE OOSEVELTS playing our fight song during games and band practices.And let’s presented by Jeri Diehl Cusack not forget the Buckeyes! R Society Life Member and Trustee The Society has been working on the usual items: keeping the MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 website updated, making sure you are informed with ViewPoints, handling day to day requests for information, and continuing to GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS PUBLIC LIBRARY add to our archives. 6:30 P.M. – GATHERING I offer the following highlights: 6:45 P.M. – SOCIETY ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Music on the Lawn: We were a presence at all the summer 7:00 P.M. – PROGRAM concerts and made some new friends, as well as selling publications and decks of cards. Many thanks to Win Keller, Jeri I n celebration of the Diehl Cusack, and Ruthanne James for manning our station all 125th anniversary of the summer.Incidentally, if you would like to purchase cards or birth of Eleanor Roosevelt publications, please contact me or one of our board members. on October 11, 1884, Farmer’s Market: Jane Harris and I managed a GH/MCHS table at Society Trustee Jeri Diehl the annual Farmer’s Market Community Day Showcase on Cusack will share her Grandview Avenue.Regular farmers sell their home grown products, insights into the lives of and there were several local organizations represented. “ER” and her intriguing We did very well, making significant sales and gaining some new family: husband Franklin memberships.We will definitely be part of this event again in 2010. (FDR”), our only four-time Annual Meeting: Please plan to attend our annual meeting.We elected President of the love visiting with you! See the article in column right for details. United States, his mother ER, FDR, and JDC at Hyde Park, New York Tour of Homes 2010: We will soon begin planning for this Sara Delano, daughter of a triennial event, which is our main fundraiser, and will be held on wealthy trader who made not one but two fortunes dealing in Mothers’ Day next May.Please contact me or any board member if Chinese opium, Eleanor’s Uncle Teddy (“TR”) who gave her you can participate.We always need docents and extra help for away in marriage for his deceased brother and even chose the this. wedding date, based on his commitment to be in NYC for the Finally, I implore all members with email addresses to please annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, and “TR”’s daughter Alice, provide us with them.This information will be put in a data base, Eleanor’s first cousin who was eight months older, but whose and will enable us to contact you between annual meetings and life ran anything but parallel to ER’s. Viewpoints publication dates. Send directly to me at: [email protected]. Jeri Diehl Cusack is a longtime collector of Roosevelt memorabilia, a frequent visitor to Roosevelt family historical See you at the annual meeting October 26! sites, and a participant in Roosevelt commemorative events. Sincerely, In this presentation, she will draw from her considerable knowledge and extensive book collection. Tracy Liberatore President Please note the new time schedule, planned to accommodate the library’s new hours. Seasonal refreshments will be served. As always, the entire community is invited to attend. This issue sponsored IN MEMORY OF LORNA “SKIP” DONALDSON KARLOVEC PAGE 2 THE AMAZING SARGENT FA he Sargent name looms large in early 20th Century funds) and the introduction of golf lessons in silent movies with TUnited States golf history,but few remember the 12-member Bobby Jones, Joyce Wethered, and Harry Vardon. family’s 1919-1932 residence in Grandview Heights. Several Another Sargent protege was Louis Montenaro of recent golf club monthly newsletters,including Scioto Country Grandview. Montenaro was with Sargent at Scioto for six years Club and Atlanta Country Club, have marked the 100th and with his help became a good golfer. Upon winning the anniversary of the 1909 U.S.Open tournament with the story 1934 governor’s trophy,emblematic of the golf championship of George Sargent’s “upset”win. of all employees of the State of Ohio, Louis Montenaro was Sargent (1882-1962) was born on the outskirts of London, quoted in a local newspaper,“Gee,I’m glad you want my picture. England and at the age of 12 was apprenticed to Head Pro Tom The reason is that I want to send the clipping down to George McWhit at the Golf Club at Epsom Downs. At age 17 he became Sargent. He’ll be glad I won.” an assistant at the Ganton Golf Club in Yorkshire under Harry George Sargent is a member of the PGA Hall of Fame and Vardon, one of the early great English players. Under Vardon was inducted into the Georgia Hall of Fame on January 7,1995. Sargent learned to design and manage golf courses, as well as how to play and teach the game. He competed in the The British Open in 1900 and finished fourth. Vardon encouraged Sargent to emigrate to the United States. In 1907 Sargent married Beatrice Marguerite Pearse and in 1908 they moved to Canada, where Sargent worked at the Royal Ottawa Club. In 1909 they moved to Sudbury,Vermont and while playing out of the Hyde Manor Club there George won the 1909 U. S. Open at the Englewood Golf Club in New Jersey,where as an unknown he came from behind on the final day to win the title. Following the 1909 win George was invited as head pro at the Chevy Chase Country Club where he served four years, followed by four years at Interlachen in Minneapolis. From 1909 through much of the 1910s he was perhaps the most successful professional golfer in the U.S.,winning the Canadian Open in 1912 and finishing in the top 10 in a number of other important tournaments. When the Professional Golf Association was created in 1916 Sargent was a charter member and was elected Vice President. In 1919 George Sargent succeeded Arthur Smith,another player from England, as the second professional at Scioto Country Club. (Smith lived at the southeast corner of First Avenue and Wyandotte Road.) From 1920 to 1925 the Sargents owned the home at 1520 Wyandotte Road, and from 1925 to 1932 they owned 1346 Lincoln Road. Sargent served five consecutive terms as the 3rd PGA President 1921-1926. In 1926 he was instrumental in capturing the U.S.Open for Scioto Country Club. Bobby Jones won the 1926 title, coming from behind in the final round. Jones asked Sargent to move to Atlanta and become head pro at his country club,but Sargent declined,until 1932 when he finally accepted Jones’ repeated invitations and moved to Atlanta’s East Lakes Country Club. During his years at Scioto George Sargent had considerable influence on many Tri-Village young men,including Joe Thomas. Sargent introduced innovations into the golf world, including his 1926 radio golf lessons (repeated by Joe Thomas George Sargent, 1909 Open Champion, Scioto’s in the 1930s to help Marble Cliff’s Aladdin Country Club raise second Pro and President of PGA of America. He brought the 1926 Open to Scioto. PAGE 3 AMILY: THE GRANDVIEW YEARS by Terry Smith Sargents in Grandview Heights Of the ten Sargent children, only the last three were born in Columbus, but all attended Grandview Schools. Several had outstanding careers in golf and other sports while at GHHS and afterward. Alfred Sargent (1908-1947) GHHS 1926,played football Gladys Sargent (1912-2004) GHHS 1931, was active in and basketball all four years and golf and baseball his final high school tennis and basketball. She moved to Atlanta three years, acted in several with her family.Over the years in Atlanta she won 12 club plays,and was Student Council ladies golf championships, finally losing to one of her president his senior year. As a daughters. 15-year-old sophomore,Alfred captained Grandview’s first Harold Lester Sargent (1913-1990) GHHS 1932, did not high school golf team which graduate. In February 1932 he moved to Atlanta with his won the Franklin County father while the rest of the family remained in Grandview Golf League season. In the until the end of the school year.He served as head golf pro summer of 1923 he competed at Atlanta Athletic Club,succeeding his father (again at the in the Franklin County Golf request of Bobby Jones).Harold was national chair of PGA Tournament, a tournament in Teaching Committee 1951-1957 and PGA president 1958- Athens (on a course George 60, and honorary PGA president 1961-63. Harold Sargent Sargent laid out), and the and his father George Sargent are the only father-son Westmoreland Country Club in presidents of the PGA. Chicago. Following his 1926 high school graduation Alfred entered the field at the U. S. Donald Sargent (1914-1998),GHHS 1932,considered by Open at Scioto. his family probably the best golfer in the family,became a chemist and worked for a soft drink company. He enrolled at Ohio State, Alfred Sargent played became captain of the freshman in the 1926 Open golf team and earned his Varsity Evelyn Lucy Sargent (1915-?), would have been GHHS “O” as a sophomore as part of 1933, but moved to Atlanta with her family for her senior the varsity foursome who won the Western Conference year.